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NetBSD 10 on Raspberry devices feedback needed in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

10.0_STABLE on a Pi 4, works as home server.

Using vintage laptops in 2024: How do you make it work? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

As others pointed out, finding Win98 drivers for that will be quite a challenge. The same probably applies to Windows 2K/Me. If for some reason you don't like XP, a good alternative for T43 is OS/2 based OSs, starting from 0S/2 Warp 4.52. I tend to prefer supported and maintained software as long as the device is expected to surf the internet, so ArcaOS would be a better alternative.

Linux support for 32-bit x86 is shriking day by day; at this point you'd better install NetBSD on anything i486 onward (but this is just my opinion).

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NetBSD performance and power management tweaks (www.unitedbsd.com)
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NetBSD Hardware compatibility compendium (www.unitedbsd.com)
Where do you use NetBSD? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It's my OS of choice, and the with the passing of time I eventually installed it on most of my hardware:

  • Thinkpad T460 (amd64), my current daily driver. HW probe
  • Thinkpad R51 (i386), for retrogaming: dual-booted with FreeDOS
  • Mac Mini G4 (macppc), for fun stuff and as DLNA.
  • Workstation (custom build, triple-booted with Windows and Slachware; HW probe) . Mainly used for development and building packages
  • Raspberry Pi4 (evbarm64), my main server (web, ftp, nntp, mail, matrix, git)
  • Raspberry Pi3 (evbarm64), secondary server (firewall + DNS)
  • SDF and tildeverse (tilde.pink)

I always wanted a SPARC machine but never got one.